Pedro Armendáriz
Born: 1912-05-09 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Died: 1963-06-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Born in Churubusco, a suburb of Mexico City, and raised in Texas, he studied at California Polytechnic State University where he graduated with an engineering degree. He began his acting career at the stage in Mexico City, entering films there in 1935. During the next years he made 42 Spanish-language films, among them "Maria Candelaria" (1943) and "La Perla" (1947), becoming one of Mexico`s top film stars. His first American film was "The Fugitive" for RKO in 1947. Since then he costarred in more than 80 films in Hollywood, England, France, Germany and Italy. Credits include "Fort Apache" (1948), "Three Godfathers", "We Were Strangers" (1949), "El Bruto" (1952), "The Littlest Outlaw" (1955), "The Conqueror" (1956), "La Cucaracha" (1958) and "The Wonderful Country" (1959). When Armendariz was taken ill while filming the second James Bond film "From Russia With Love" his scenes were rushed through so he could return to L.A. for treatment and he entered UCLA Medical Center. Learning he had terminal cancer he killed himself there with a gunshot.
Filmography
2024
- The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout as Self (archive footage)
1963
- From Russia with Love as Ali Kerim Bey
- Captain Sindbad as El Kerim
- La Bandida as Roberto Herrera
1962
- My Son, the Hero as Cadmo
- Los valientes no mueren
- Miracles Weaver as Señor Cura
1961
- Francis of Assisi as The Sultan
- My Son, the Hero as General
1960
- Dos hijos desobedientes as Pedro
- El indulto as Lucas Sánchez Parrondo
- Violent Summer as Francisco Peña
- La cárcel de Cananea as Pedro
- El impostor as Profesor César Rubio
- Los desarraigados
- Calibre 44 as Don Pedro
- Our Daily Hunger as Macario Férnandez
1959
- Café Colón
- The Wonderful Country as Cipriano Castro
- La Cucaracha as Coronel Valentín Razo
- Thirst for Love as Pedro Ortiz
- The Little Savage as El Tiburón
- Beyond All Limits as Pepe Gamboa
- I'm flying low
- El zarco
- Yo pecador
- The Vivanco Ladies as Gen. Inocencio Torrentera
1958
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Yo quiero ser artista as Self
- This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter as Pancho Villa
- Los salvajes as Pedro Matías
- This Was Pancho Villa: Second chapter as Pancho Villa
1957
- Manuela as Mario Constanza
- Men and Wolves as Giovanni
- The Big Boodle as Col. Mastegui (as Pedro Armendariz)
- This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter as Pancho Villa
- La mujer que no tuvo infancia
1956
- The Conqueror as Jamuga
- Diane as King Francis I
- The Hidden One as Felipe Rojano
- Basket of Mexican Tales as Carlos Cosio
1955
- The Littlest Outlaw as Gen. Torres
- Native Drums as Martinez
- Fortune carrée as Igricheff
1954
- Border River as General Calleja (as Pedro Armendariz)
- Rebellion of the Hanged as Cándido Castro
- Reto a la vida as Diego Maldonado
- Dos mundos y un amor as Ricardo Anaya
- Mulata as Martín
1953
- Lucrèce Borgia as César Borgia
- The Brute as Pedro
- The Lovers of Toledo as Don Alvaro Blas Basto y Mosquera
1952
- Soledad's Shawl as Roque Suazo
- Night Falls as Marcos Arizmendi
- Los tres alegres compadres as Baldomero Mireles
- Meat in Prison as Pablo González
1951
- Weddings of fire
- Tierra baja as Manelic
- Hell Road as Pedro Uribe
- Ella y yo as Pedro Muñóz
- For Loving a Woman
1950
- The Torch as José Juan Reyes
- By the False Door as Bernardo Celis
- Rosauro Castro as Rosauro Castro
- La loca de la casa as José María Cruz
- Pancho Villa vuelve
1949
- We Were Strangers as Armando Ariete
- El abandonado
- Tulsa as Jim Redbird
- Late Afternoon as Sebastian del Llano
- The Unloved Woman as Esteban
- El charro y la dama
1948
- Fort Apache as Sgt. Beaufort
- 3 Godfathers as Pedro 'Pete' Roca Fuerte
- Juan Charrasqueado as Juan Robledo (Charrasqueado)
- Maclovia as José María
- En la Hacienda de la Flor
1947
- The Fugitive as A Lieutenant of Police
- The Pearl as Quino
- Albur de amor
- La casa colorada
1946
- Enamorada as Gen. José Juan Reyes
- Rayando el sol
1945
- El capitán Malacara
- The Abandoned as Juan Gómez
- Entre hermanos as Ramón Arellano
- Bugambilia as Ricardo Rojas
1944
1943
- Another Dawn as Octavio
- Wild Flower as José Luis Castro
- Konga Roja as Federico Robles
- Tierra De Pasiones
1942
- Passion Island as El Toro
- I'm a Real Mexican as Guadalupe Padilla
- Del rancho a la capital
- Simón Bolívar as General Briceño Méndez
- Allá en el bajio as Juan Hernández
1941
- Ni sangre ni arena as Frank
- El Zorro de Jalisco as Leonardo Torres
- El secreto del sacerdote
1940
- El jefe máximo
- Mala yerba as Chuy Rodríguez
- Los olvidados de Dios as Zenón Rojas
- El charro Negro as Ramón
- Pobre diablo as Raúl Solares
1939
1938
- Los millones de Chaflán as Antonio
- Canto a mi tierra as Antonio
- El indio